The Daily Quickie, 10.22.09

There’s a radio debate in the governor’s race featuring the three leading candidates, Gov. Jon Corzine, Chris Christie and Chris Daggett, on WBGO, a public radio station in Newark that mostly plays jazz music. Their signal is streamed online at this site[1].

In Camden, Corzine speaks at the inaugural event for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Cooper’s chairman, by the way, is South Jersey political boss George Norcross III. Later in the day, he accepts the endorsement from the PBA union.

Christie greets voters at the Hampton Diner in Newton, then visits seniors at the House of the Good Shepherd in Hackettstown.

Daggett didn’t have a public schedule planned — until after the Eagleton/Rutgers poll showed him at a personal-best 20 percent in its poll. Now he’s going to be available to reporters early this afternoon at a hotel near Newark Airport.

Here’s the calendar for the lieutenant governor candidates: Republican Kim Guadagno campaigns with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele in Westfield, Jersey City and Hackensack. Democrat Loretta Weinberg is in Jersey City and Teaneck. Independent Frank Esposito speaks at a Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce candidates’ luncheon in Deptford, then at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Florham Park.

Republican senators Tom Kean Jr., Anthony Bucco, Steve Oroho and Joe Pennacchio hold a Statehouse news conference urging the Corzine administration to curtail spending and implement more aggressive budget savings manuevers, after the Treasury Department announced the budget was $190 million short in the fiscal year’s first three months.

Sen. Bob Smith, who chairs the Environment Committee, joins with Passaic County Freeholder Tahesha Way and leaders of environmental groups at Monksville Reservoir in Ringwood to promote passage of the open-space ballot question.

The two-day New Jersey Clean Energy Conference wraps up in Atlantic City.

Attorney General Anne Milgram, Maj. Gen. Glenn Rieth and Casino Reinvestment Development Authority executive director Tom Carver, joined by state Sen. James Whelan and Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, hold a news conference in the shore resort town to talk about renovations to the Atlantic City Armory to create an after-school youth and recreation center.

Public Advocate Ronald Chen joins with tenants and community advocates in Newark to outline problems facing tenants as a result of increasing foreclosures and announce a help line to help people stay in their apartments and keep their utilities on.

The Election Law Enforcement Commission issues campaign finance reports for the July-through-September quarter for candidates not on this year’s ballot and local political party committees.

Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia will join Paterson Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres, Paterson Housing Authority representatives and local officials to break ground on Phase I of the new Alexander Hamilton Housing Development, which will be built at the site of the old public housing complex of the same name.